Bottle opener



Nov. 8, 1932. .1. L. TEAVER 1,885,604

BOTTLE OPENER Filed Sept. 10. 1951 INVENTOR .J' L Teal/er ATTORNEYS Patented Nov. 8, 1932 UNITED STATES PATE J OE L. TEAVER, 0F BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, ASSIGNOR 'I'O JOE L. TEAVER, NICHOLAS J. PETERS, AND G. N. COMATI, A COPARTNERSHIP BOTTLE OPENER Application filed September 10, 1931. Serial No. 562,031.

signing the opener for being mounted on a a stationary upright support with an extension or brace whlch pro ects below the cap engagmg member and is adapted to serve as a fulcrum or thrust bearing about which the crown can be rocked while being stripped from the bottle. I thus prevent any defacement of the surface on which the bottle opener is mounted.

My invention further contemplates the formation of such an opener of bent wire as thereby it can be very lightly and cheaply produced and at the same time I am enabled to readily obtain both the rounded shape and yieldable characteristic in the bail and also to form the fulcrum extension all with a minimum of stock in a single operation.

My invention further contemplates forming the opener of the type in question of bent wire in which the side legs of the cap engaging member are bent inwardly and upwardly in a plane normal to the cap engaging member to form eyes for the reception of mounting screws and the free ends of the wire beyond these eyes are bent inwardly and downwardly to form a brace for the mounting as well as the fulcrum bearing, the cap engaging member being slightly inclined clownwardly so as to avoid too direct a pull against the bottle bead and therefore leave it free to yield and ride over the head.

My invention further comprises the novel details of construction and arrangements of parts, which in their preferred embodiment only are illustrated in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this specification, and in which Fig. 1 is a side view showing the opener in operative engagement with the bottle crown, the dotted lines indicating the manner in veach other are bent which the cap engaging member will yield in riding over the end bead on the bottle.

ig. 2 is a View corresponding to Fig. 1 with the bottle crown and cap engaging member shown in central vertical cross-section.

Figs. 3 and 4 are detail front and plan views of the bottle opener of the stationary mountable type.

Similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawing.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention I have shown same adapted to be mounted on a suitable upright support 5 and the opener comprises a cap engaging portion 6 disposed in a plane that is slightly below normal to the support and joined to the base portion which comprises screw eyes 7 preferably disposed above the cap'engaging member and the fulcrum bearing and mounting brace 8 disposed below the cap engaging member.

In its preferred embodiment the opener is formed of bent wire, the side legs 9 of the bail being inclined slightly upwardly and then bent inwardly to form the eyes 7 and then inwardly and downwardly to form the brace members 10 which as they approach downwardly in parallelism to form a fulcrum bearing 8. Screws 11 are shown employed to secure the bottle opener to its support 5. In operation, the bottle 12, having an end bead 13 with a metal crown 14 crimped thereover, is presented to the opener at a slight upward incline which causes the lower edge of the crown to rest against the base portion 1 8 while the cap engaging portion 6 will engage the bottle neck behind the crimped edge of the cap. This is shown clearly in Fig. 2. The bottle is then pressed towards the opener and is rocked about the base portion 8 as a fulcrum and as it rocks the cap engaging member 6 will engage the crimped crown so as to pull it off. In thus pulling the crown off the rounded cap engaging member will come into engagement with the end bead 13 on the of bottles are broken in the opening operation, and it represents a matter of prime importance to the soft drink industry to have a cheap inexpensive and effective bottle opener which will insure against bottle breakage of the above character. a

While-it is preferable that the bottle opener be formed of wire, this is merely its preferred embodiment. It is to be noted that the base "members'S and 10,'inaddition to formingthe fulcrum, also serve to brace the mountingof the bottle opener so that it will not tendrto work loose under the screws nor to prizethe screws out as the result of the application of the ordinary force necessary to open bottles. While I have shown my invention in but one form, it will be obvious to thoseskilled Q in :the art :that it is notso limited, but is susceptible of variouschanges and modifications, without departing from the spirit thereof, and I desire,therefore, that only such limitations shall be placed thereupon as are imposed by the prior art or as are specificallyset forth in the appended claims.

What I claim is 2- 1. A bottle opener of the character described, formed of integral bent wire comprising a bail-like crown removing portion,

and a base portion formed witheyes' above the crown removing portion and with ends bent inward and downward to extend =below jth'e crown removing portion.

2. A'bottleopener formed of integral bent wire and comprising a base portion and'a cap engaging-member approximately normal to the'base, the wire being bent-to form attaching eyes above the cap engaging'memberand an extension below the cap engaging member in position to be engaged by the bottlecrown While being-removed by the cap engaging member.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature. JOE L. TEAVER. 

